On Friday, September 20, 2019 at 10:34:01 AM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 9/20/2019 6:53 AM, Bruce wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 05:35:12 -0500, Terry Coombs >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 9/20/2019 3:08 AM, Ophelia wrote:
> >>> "Terry Coombs"Â* wrote in message ....
> >>>
> >>> On 9/19/2019 8:44 PM, wrote:
> >>>> On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:25:02 -0700 (PDT), "
> >>>> > wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Just beans and potato salad sounds like a crappy cheapo meal.... what
> >>>> goes with it... a roast fresh ham could save that poor man's dinner...
> >>>
> >>> Â* You need remedial reading 001 ... because apparently you missed the
> >>> part about brats (bratwurst) tonight and smoked pork shoulder tomorrow .
> >>> The brats were awesome , the potato salad was stellar , but there were
> >>> no beans tonight . I'll put some white beans on to soak before i go to
> >>> bed tonight , home made baked beans for dinner tomorrow .
> >>> Â* Eat your heart out loser .
> >>>
> >>> Â*Snag
> >>>
> >>> Â*===
> >>>
> >>> Â*Â* I am just learning to use dried beans.Â* nb explained about soaking
> >>> and cooking.Â* What will you do with your beans after they are soaked.
> >>> Do you bake them?
> >>>
> >> Â* They were to go on the smoker early this afternoon , but it may bee a
> >> moot point . I forgot to put them on to soak ...
> >
> > What is it with a certain type of American men and their smokers and
> > BBQs? They always love to talk about it and compare notes. It seems to
> > go hand in hand with owning motorbikes, being patriotic and having
> > facial hair. Does this phenomenon have a name?
> >
> > PS: They like to use silly nicknames, such as Snag.
> >
>
> Seems like they have waned in recent years but most nicknames were a
> term of endearment or from a physical attribute of a person. I've been
> introduced to people with their nickname and it took a long time to
> finally find out their real name.
>
> Years ago where my FIL worked there were three guys working together and
> all were named Tom. To avoid confusion, one went by Dick, the other
> Harry.
>
> Some people don't like their given name and choose to use a Nick.
>
> Just look at the typical newsgroup and you see few real names.

I worked in a hotel, and we had three waiters whose nicknames were 'Andrew The Chinese guy', 'Big Ron', and 'Little Ron'.